Author: Rachael Wright
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Best and Brightest 2025: An advocate for improving health care access
Over eight thousand miles away lives the small village in India where The Classical Academy High School senior Vanya Lavu’s family is from and where her extended family still lives. Access to health care is extremely limited . Between 2021-2024 three of Lavu’s grandparents died. “My life story and the adversities that my loved ones…
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Best and Brightest 2025: Serving the community, overcoming challenges
“There’s a saying out there that the strongest man you know is a first-born daughter,” said Denise Gondrez, Gear Up adviser at Mitchell High School, “and Talia is the prime example of that quote.” Mitchell High School senior Talia Miranda has overcome more challenges than most of her peers, including a move from Florida to…
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Best and Brightest 2025: Big dreams of a future steeped in space
“He does what anyone else could do,” said Mark Barrionuevo of his son Smith, “but most people don’t want to give that much effort to their life, or blame others for the challenges of life. That’s what separates Smith from the rest of us.” Pine Creek High School senior Smith Barrionuevo has walked a difficult…
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Coal to nuclear? Western Slope advocates say it could be ‘a plug and play’
Family picnics in the 1940s and 1950s in western Colorado might have resulted in more than ants marching over a worn checkered tablecloth. On the arid sandstone outcrops, in fine grains and veinlets, in greenish-yellow or a sooty black, lay the United States’ hope for Cold War dominance: uranium. Seventy-five years on, some Coloradans still…
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Longest serving Colorado House speaker makes surprise announcement | A LOOK BACK
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Announcing his intentions months in advance, at the start of the legislative session, the longest serving speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Carl “Bev” Bledsoe, R-Hugo, said that he…
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Sen. Campbell chimes in on SOS lightning rod candidate, aide | A LOOK BACK
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty Years Ago This Week: Contacted repeatedly by reporters, U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell attempted to clear up misunderstandings surrounding embattled candidate for Colorado secretary of state Sherrie Wolff. Wolff, a longtime staffer for Campbell,…
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GOP, Benson fail to oust Romer, but celebrate other victories | A LOOK BACK
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty Years Ago This Week: Even though they failed in their efforts to oust Gov. Roy Romer, Republican leadership said they were thrilled with the way the election had panned out for their party as…
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Attorney general’s office chastises SOS candidate for illegality claim | A LOOK BACK
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty Years Ago This Week: “Where’s the beef?” asked Terrance Gillespie of the Colorado Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Unit, after reviewing charges filed by Democratic Party candidate for secretary of state Sherrie Wolf against Republican…
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Salazar formally launches state tour, marks formidable entry into U.S. Senate race | A LOOK BACK
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty Years Ago This Week: Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, the Democratic Party’s favored candidate for U.S. Senate, launched his “Conversations with Coloradans” tour with a kickoff event at his Denver campaign headquarters. Salazar told…
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Denver’s Mayor Webb addresses Republican organization | A LOOK BACK
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thirty Years Ago This Week: The Lincoln Club of Colorado might be a strange place for a Democratic mayor of Denver to visit, but Wellington Webb found himself stepping up to the podium in front…